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Freehand Drawing Icons Text and Curved Text Rosette Bitmaps
Icons are used to represent features on your map. Icons have a color, and outline color (set by the Text Outline Color button), a size, and an overlay. Icons are created by first selecting an icon from the Icon pages. Then click on the map where you want the icon placed. You can change the size of an icon by using the Icon Size slider in the Icon Settings toolbar.
You can use several icon placement methods. The simplest is single icon , which places an icon each time you click. Other methods are square
, diamond
, or random
, which "spray" icons in an area in various patterns as long as you have the mouse button held down. The spacing between icons is controlled by the Icon Spread slider
. Depending on your selection settings, you may have to Ungroup a spray of icons before they can be individually edited.
After placement of an icon, you can rotate it using the various rotate buttons. If you don't like the way an icons looks, you must decompose it to edit its features.